"To fully understand the seriousness of what we are talking about, we need to take it a step further.
We are fortunate to live in France under the rule of law.
The very definition of a rule of law: it is a state in which people are protected against the arbitrariness of the state. Our rule of law was built in opposition to monarchical absolutism.
Now let us look at article 2 of this law (anti-breakers), the text says that prefects by order of the government, may now impose an administrative ban on demonstrations: "against any person against whom there are serious reasons to believe that he constitutes a threat of particular gravity..."
It is absolutely unclear, it leaves a total power of appreciation to the prefects, in other words, it leaves the possibility for the state to take absolutely arbitrary decisions.
This liberticidal law, which infringes our individual freedom, has been taken because material symbols of our Republic have been degraded, including the Arc de Triomphe. And to respond to this, the government has degraded something even more precious, it is an immaterial symbol of the Republic: our regime of freedom.
Let us imagine that tomorrow a government would come, which would not be well intentioned, which was authoritarian in its intentions, this government would already have the whole legal framework to oppress its population. He would not have changed any laws, that is the government's legacy.